Vranch House is a centre for the treatment of over 2,000 outpatients with physical difficulties, a provider of various therapies throughout Devon and an independent Day School in Exeter for children with significant physical difficulties.

Parent's/Carer's Letter October 2017

After the launch of the Parent/Carer access to our assessment tool Earwig Academic I have met with a number of you to discuss your experience of this system so far. It is most heartening to hear that those of you who have logged in are finding it to be an enjoyable and valuable window into your child's daily progress at school. I have taken your suggestions for developments to this system back to Earwig and they are in the process of developing a Parent/Carer app for Apple/Android/Windows so watch this space...

If you do not have a login yet it Is not too late! If you would like to access your child's ‘Timeline' and see first-hand what they have achieved each day, please pass your preferred email address to me via your child's class teacher and I will set-up a parent account for you.

This academic year I have altered the format for assemblies; class teachers now run a class assembly each Friday and link this to a program of events I have put together based around world religions (including Christianity), core British Values (in line with Department for Education guidance) and global citizenship. To round-off each half term I will be delivering an ‘ABC (Ability, Behaviour and Cognition) awards' assembly to celebrate one pupil from each class who has perhaps demonstrated exceptional growth in a skill area, kindness toward others or new understanding in their work for example. Parents and Carers are warmly invited to attend these assemblies and I will issue specific invites to Parents and Carers of pupils receiving a certificate at each ABC awards assembly.

Finally, the staff and I have set some dates for key events leading up to the end of term and Christmas (sorry, I know it's still October and many of you don't want to talk about Christmas yet!), please see below.